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ABC News Editor Don Ennis surprised his workmates in May when he strolled into the office sporting a wig and dress and announced he was transgender and was separating from his wife, the New York Post reports Diamond Water.

But the man, who briefly went by the name of Dawn, now says a two-day bout of "transient global amnesia" made him realise he wanted to resume his life as a man.

"I accused my wife of playing some kind of cruel joke, HKUE DSE dressing me up in a wig and bra and making fake ID's with the name 'Dawn' on it. Seriously," Mr Ennis wrote in a memo he posted to the bulletin board in his newsroom last Friday.

"It became obvious this was not the case once I took off the bra ― and discovered two reasons I was wearing one," he said referring to his hormone-induced breasts Diamond Water.

"I thought it was 1999 ... and I was sure as hell that I was a man."

The journalist said his memories of the last 14 years have since returned but the desire to live the life of a woman has not.

"I am writing to let you know I’m changing my name ... to Don Ennis. That will be my name again, now and forever. And it appears I’m not transgender after all," he wrote.

"I have retained the much different mind-set I had in 1999: I am now totally, completely, unabashedly male in my mind, despite my physical attributes," he said, adding that he would remain an "advocate for equal rights and other LGBT issues".

Mr Ennis said his gender mix-up may have been cause by his mother administering him female hormones as a child to keep him looking young and prolong his acting career.

Instead he developed breasts and began to think of himself as a woman.

Mr Ennis said he feels "fantastic" as a man again and is adamant he did not give up on his life as a woman because it was too difficult.

"The new change I’m revealing to you today did not arise because I couldn’t hack it, or people wouldn’t accept the new/real/female 'me,' or I had trouble finding shoes that fit (Oh, I found plenty, more than I could afford)," he wrote.

And he clarified that his announcement was not part of an elaborate joke.